TEDxBoston - Dr Jay Bradner - Opensource Drug Discovery

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Dr. Jay Bradner Research Scientist and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, shares his breakthrough approach for subverting the aggressive behavior of cancer by reprogramming a cell's fundamental identity . . . and he's giving the secrets away in order to spur open-source drug discovery.

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Science & Technology

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• america
• english
• TEDxBoston
• Cancer
• Collaboration
• open-source
• science
• chemical biology
• molecular oncology

[lwoj94]

Thank you Todd! Missin you

[karottenknabe]

Nobel material!

I called it...

[Tibbon]

I'm wondering if a GPL-style patent license (or copyright for the compound information) could be written, enabling labs to release papers and information that anyone can work with, but mandating that all things that build off of it are released under the same license (just like GPL programming code).

GPL-style licensing has created several successful commercial for-profit companies that make money from additional support and distribution surrounding the open source product.

[bradnera]

A smart guy keeping the world safe from Big Pharma (my words, not his....).

[xjustamem0ryx]

One day "privatization, monopoly, secrecy, profit, exploitation" will be the object of abject laughter rather than the falsely immutable tenets of a degenerative society.